Kozo Okamoto

Kozo Okamoto (7 December 1947-) was a Japanese Red Army militant and one of the perpetrators of the 1972 Lod Airport massacre.

Biography
Kozo Okamoto was born on 7 December 1947 in Kumamoto, Japan, and he came from a middle class family. Okamoto studied botany before joining the Japanese Red Army communist revolutionary organization, and he converted to Islam while he was in Baalbek, Lebanon training with other left-wing revolutionaries under the auspices of Wadie Haddad and PFLP-EO. In 1972, Okamoto was a member of the commando that executed the Lod Airport massacre, killing 26 people and wounding 79. Okamoto was captured and detained in Israel for the murder of innocent people (most of them Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico).